Proper Composting: This is How You Proceed
A healthy soil lives from its humus layer. Compost provides the garden soil with valuable nutrients and improves moisture retention. But when it comes to compost,... Read more.
Raised Beds and Square Gardening: Advantages, Design and Planting
Spring is here and it is high time to start planning for the garden. What fruits and vegetables should grow in the garden this year? Which herbs should it be? Not... Read more.
Can You Graft Onto an Old Tree?
Plant grafting is a particularly fascinating method of horticultural propagation. Accuracy and skill are required, as well as the necessary knowledge, of course.... Read more.
Should You Prune Roses in Spring
There’s no doubt about it: when the roses are in bloom, their hibernation is over – and that of all gardeners, too. That’s a good thing, because... Read more.
Nettle Liquid Manure: Preparation and Application
Nettle liquid manure fertilises and strengthens plants. That convinces every gardener. And best of all: it is very easy to make. Karl Ploberger shows you how to... Read more.
Where Do Quinces Grow Best?
Hardly any fruit tree is less complicated than a quince tree. Diseases rarely occur, only occasionally do individual fruits rot. Many a quince tree bears more fruit... Read more.
Are Broad Beans Easy to Grow?
For gardeners who can hardly wait to start the vegetable garden in spring, broad beans (Vicia faba) are very interesting. Their seeds germinate at just a few degrees... Read more.
Venus Flytrap: Insect Hunter for the Windowsill
It is really fascinating what unusual mechanisms carnivorous plants use to hunt insects. The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) from the sundew family (Droseraceae)... Read more.
How Does Pitcher Plant Catch the Insect?
The pitcher plant (Nepenthes hybrids) belongs to the carnivorous plants, called insectivores or carnivores. It cleverly forms its leaves into bulbous traps from... Read more.
When Should You Prune Maple Trees?
Most maple species do not like pruning, and they naturally grow very harmoniously and form well-proportioned crowns. However, even the most beautiful maple needs... Read more.
Late-flowering Autumn Plants That Will Help Bees
The table is richly laid for bees and bumblebees in summer, but at the end of the most beautiful season it usually looks rather sparse: In many gardens there is... Read more.
How Do You Plant a Fern?
Whether with bright autumn colours or in wintergreen splendour: there is a semi-shady spot in every garden for the many fern species available. We would like to... Read more.
How Do You Care for a Bishop’s Cap Cactus?
The bishop’s cap owes its quirky name to its somewhat whimsical, almost spherical growth form. This thornless cactus comes from the Mexican desert and scores... Read more.
What Herbs Grow Well on a Window Sill?
If you don’t want to do without aromatic greenery at home, you are well advised to use herbs for the windowsill. However, not all species that succeed in the... Read more.
How Do I Winterize My Outdoor Garden?
If you are still in the middle of the busy planting season by the end of November, you should not forget that you should also prepare your garden for winter in good... Read more.
5 Air-purifying Plants That Encourage You to Breathe Deeply
The capabilities of the plant world never cease to amaze us. The metabolic processes of our indoor plants also benefit us: they produce oxygen, increase humidity... Read more.
Walnut Tree: Planting, Care and Pruning
Don’t shy away from familiar sizes: a grafted walnut tree fits into the home garden and bears fruit much earlier than a seedling tree. Specialist editor Arne... Read more.
What Conditions Do Pampas Grass Need?
The pampas grass grows quickly, reaches impressive heights and can be used in a variety of ways. Thanks to its simple elegance, it fits perfectly into a modern and... Read more.
How to Grow Big Leeks
Leeks (Allium porrum) refine stews, soups and stir-fries of all kinds with their spicy aroma. Once you have chosen the right varieties of the white-green vegetables,... Read more.
Which Mower is Best Battery, Electric, Petrol or Robotic Mower?
Which tool is suitable for my garden? Every garden has its own lawn mower. Apart from personal preferences, which device is the right one depends on factors such... Read more.
What Kind Of Ferns Thrives Indoors?
On the beautiful forest dwellers with lush leafy fronds some do not even get involved, because they are considered delicate and somewhat difficult to care for. Too... Read more.
Should You Feed Robins In Winter?
Feeding robins in the winter is generally not necessary, and it may even be counterproductive in some cases. Robins are migratory birds, and many of them head to... Read more.
Vertical Farming: Advantages and Disadvantages
Will our vegetables in the future no longer be cultivated in fields, but in skyscrapers? In any case, the principle of vertical farming promises progressive agriculture... Read more.
Sea Buckthorn in the Garden: Plant, Care & Harvest
Fruits in bright orange and silvery foliage: the sight of a sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) brings back memories of sunny vacations by the sea for many. Numerous... Read more.
Tarragon How to Grow in a Pot
Tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus) is highly valued by gourmets. The seasoning plant goes perfectly with sauces, salads, fish or vegetable dishes – and growing... Read more.
How Do I Keep My Supermarket Basil Plant Alive?
You picked up another pot of basil at the supermarket or garden centre – and as usual, it didn’t survive long? Annoying, but unfortunately predictable.... Read more.
What Plants Are Good for Underplanting Trees?
Plants that grow under woody plants do not have it easy. They have to withstand drought, shade and the pressure of large roots. Anyone who wants to plant under trees... Read more.
Plants Against Itching – That Helps With Insect Bites
In summer, there is nothing better than meeting a few friends at a lake with a cool drink. Insects such as mosquitoes and horseflies, which like to bite and sting,... Read more.
How Often Should Lavender Be Pruned?
Real lavender is the Mediterranean garden classic par excellence. It blooms for weeks in countless gardens and spreads its lovely fragrance. The characteristic flower... Read more.
Green Manuring in Autumn: For Ecological Soil Improvement
What is taken out of the garden soil by crops or ornamental plants must be returned to the soil sooner or later so that it is not permanently leached out. A particularly... Read more.